The complete ionic equation for the reaction of aqueous sodium hydroxide with aqueous nitric acid is

Answer and Explanation:

Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is a strong base and nitric acid (HNO₃) is a strong acid. That means that they dissociates in water by giving the ions:

NaOH ⇒ Na⁺(ac) + OH⁻(ac)

HNO₃ ⇒ H⁺(ac) + NO₃⁻(ac)

The reaction between an acid and a base is called neutralization. In this case, HNO₃ loses its proton and it is converted in NO₃⁻ (nitrate anion). NaOH loses its hydroxyl anion (OH⁻) by giving Na⁺ cations.

Na⁺ cations with NO₃⁻ anions form the salt NaNO₃ (sodium nitrate); whereas H⁺ and OH⁻ form water molecules. The complete equation is the following:

HNO₃(ac) + NaOH(ac) ⇒ NaNO₃(ac) + H₂O(l)

The ionic equation is:

H⁺(ac) + NO₃⁻(ac) + Na⁺(ac) + OH⁻(ac) ⇄ Na⁺(ac) + NO₃⁻(ac) + H₂O(ac)

If we cancel the repeated ions at both sides of the equation, it gives the following ionic reaction:

H⁺(ac) + OH⁻(ac) ⇄ H₂O(ac)

answer is: c. the experiment shows that the red substance experienced a chemical change.

this is chemical change (chemical reaction), because two new substances are formed (metalig liquid and gas), the atoms are rearranged and the reaction is followed by an energy change.

this is example of chemical decomposition.

chemical decomposition (analysis) is the separation of a single chemical compound into its two or more elemental parts or to simpler compounds.  

chemical decomposition is opposite of chemical synthesis.